De Sugarhill Gang au mouvement hip-hop

2020. Le jeune rappeur Ninho est numéro 1 des ventes de disques, PNL est tête d’affiche dans les plus gros festivals français, Jul est le deuxième plus gros vendeur de l’histoire après un certain… Johnny Hallyday. Pas de doute, le rap est bien numéro 1 en France. Le rap réussit l ...  Show more

Au XVIe siècle, le français devient langue littéraire légitime, au même titre que les langues anciennes, sous l'impulsion de poètes comme ceux de la Pléiade (Du Bellay, Ronsard). Quelques siècles plus tard, il est donc normal qu’un style de musique s’en empare.En rap, le français ...  Show more

By the late 90s, rap was the world’s pop music. The money was flowing, creating hip-hop moguls and welcoming in the Bling Era. 

But as hip-hop went mainstream and gained commercial success, the rap music topping the charts had begun to largely shed its political messagin ...

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Two turntables and a microphone. That was all DJ Kool Herc had 50 years ago when he planted the seeds of what would become hip-hop. Today, we’ll hear directly from some of the genre’s biggest stars about how hip-hop took over the world.< ...

Drug wars, recessions and record violence in the 1980s had US cities in crisis. Hip hop artists responded by shifting from party music to a new style called "conscious rap." Artists like Public Enemy and Digable Planets championed a sound that was political, community-minded and ...  Show more

DJ and writer Lynnée Denise marks hip-hop’s 50th year by speaking to leading names about the music, the art and the creativity of this global cultural movement. Legendary hip-hop producer Pete Rock reminisces over the last five decades, celebrating the artform, exploring its soci ...  Show more